In June 2023, the podcast “Our Body Politic” broadcast a panel, recorded live at the Center for the Study of Guns & Society’s May 2023 symposium, “Lessons from History on Domestic Violence, Firearms, and the Law.” Karen Attiah, Washington Post columnist and Our Body Politic guest host, moderated the panel, Read more…
In her May 12 opinion column in the Washington Post, Karen Attiah wrote about the allure of gun culture, following yet another mass shooting in her home state of Texas. “In the United States, the holy symbol for our cult is the gun, and its sacred text is the Second Read more…
Jennifer Tucker, founding director of the Center for the Study of Guns & Society (CSGS), was recently interviewed on the Brady podcast in an episode titled, “The Rising Lethality of the Second Amendment.” Tucker describes her early introduction to guns in popular culture and how she came to study guns Read more…
Joseph Slaughter, associate director of the Center for the Study of Guns & Society, was recently interviewed by Current—an online journal of commentary and opinion on contemporary culture, politics, and ideas—about his research on how Christianity and gun culture became intertwined in the U.S. Slaughter discussed his research on gun Read more…
